touché to the 'vandals'

anything banksy can do, the national gallery can do better (apparently...)

over this bank holiday the cansfestival is happening in landan. a weekend long art exhibition celebrating stencil art. so it seems fitting to mention the grandtour project. set up by the national gallery, a possible backlash of sorts towards artists like banksy, self installing graffiti into prestigious galleries and juxtaposing other fine art like warhol's soup & monroe and monet's garden & sunflowers?

the grand tour project took reproductions of the old masters out into the streets of london, framed and hung. an interesting concept.

[photos from nationalgallery pdf.]

covered by the guardian. gallery here.